Author: Jason Williamson
Date: 11:52:53 07/01/00
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And it was once said that no one would need more then 640K of ram. Jason On July 01, 2000 at 11:29:53, blass uri wrote: >On July 01, 2000 at 11:03:18, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: > >>On July 01, 2000 at 03:57:00, Jerry Adams wrote: >> >>> >>> The Best Software on the best machines are not playing grandmanster level >>>chess. Or should I say that Rebel century is an exception? Generally Software >>>Programs in my opinion are not demonstrationing grandmaster results? I mean at >>>40\2hrs or am I mistaken? >> >>Mr. Adams, >> >>I think that a Dr. Hyatt is pretty competent to make that assertion. He has >>been doing this computer chess programming for over a quarter of a century. He >>also knows about grandmaster level play. The machines just don't have a clue in >>complex positions. They will get better. In five to seven years we will have 12 >>teraflop home workstations and 8 man tablebase chess programs > >I guess that we are not going to have in 5-7 years 8 pieces tablebases. > >I guess that we will even not have the complete 7 pieces tablebases in 5-7 >years. > >calculating the 5 piece tablebases can take at least some weeks and maybe more >than a month in the hardare of today(calculating only one 5 piece simple >tablebase with no pawns like KQR vs KR takes few hours on my pentiumIII450 and >there are many tablebases to calculate when most of them takes more time). > >calculating all the 6 piece tablesbases will take more time in the hardware of >2007 without parallel search(I assume that computers are twice faster every 18 >monthes so computers will be less than 30 times faster). > >parallel search can help but I do not believe it will be enough to generate all >the 7 piece tablebases in 2007. > >There is also a problem of memory and I do not believe that there will be enough >memory for the 8 piece tablebases in 2007 > >Uri
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